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Sunday, March 23, 2008
No Spam In This Cake
I should explain myself. I hated food as a kid. Oh bleh. Really drab, lonely, sinking, quick-sand memories descend when I think of sitting alone for hours at the dinner table - staring at the obviously (in retrospect) lsd-angel-dust inspired, 70s wallpaper in front of me - locked in stare-downs with these scary little morphing leaf-wallpaper faces, one particularly mocking me (he wore a beret, oddly, but it was actually just a leaf), as I tried to eek this disgusting grub down my throat. Ugh. That's generally how I remember food as a child, ick. Except...
Sugar. Sucre. Azucar. Zucchero. Satou. Siucra. Granulated sugar, powdered sugar, brown sugar. SHOO-ger, loved it, in any form. Vivid memories - not the hazy, just-woke-up-on-a-misty-morning kind of childhood memory. These are crisp. The granulated sugar was kept in an upper cupboard; but, there was always a little, plastic, red mug on the first shelf kept full of the glistening little crystals. Armed with a teaspoon, I would open a bottom cupboard, place both feet inside - elevating my bad, short self - and proceed to scoop the white love into my future dentist's child's college fund. Powdered sugar was kept in a middle drawer - amidst chocolate chips, nuts and other baking kin - what I loved most about my powder scoops was rooted in the aftermath of the first pass: take heaping spoonage, consume most of it, and leftover is a kind of moist mass of soft sugar goo - a whole new sugar species, a new texture to finagle off the spoon, this one is a new kind of savor - it's a sugar paste, mind you! The brown sugar was a triple prisoner - kept inside the fridge - then inside tupperware - then inside a plastic bag. I needed time to get at this golden sand. She was unpredictable too (no idea how she just became a "she") - she might be soft, flowy, fluffy - or hard, crumbly, cracked. I liked her either way - just the approach that changed. One way, she was easy and light - the other, I had to work at her slowly. Either way, brown sugar was always grainy-sweet and wonderfully textural. All of them had that melt-in-your-mouth quality. All of them were the only food that I understood - for a really, really long time. I wanted to live on sugar and all things related to sugar. Only.
I grew up in the middle of the country, you see. Casseroles. Hot dishes. Layers of crap piled together - whose visual strata so repulsed me as a child - that even now I flutter with a bit of nausea as I recall them, with not a shred of fond nostalgia. I mean, was it meant to be art? Was there a time in the Meat-and-Potatoes-Movement where it became so oppressive that a group of women pressed forward, braced like Suffragettes, armed with almost every pre-pre-prepared ingredient in their kitchens - manically throwing together ingredients that make the mind, and the stomach, reel - proving, perhaps, infinite abilities to combine and create? Oh the combinations! I was going to list some repulsive casserole ingredients here, but the shivers down my spine are getting to me - and I'm feeling weak. Another time, perhaps, when I regain my strength. Tater tots, spam, cream of mushroom, yams - there! Four to get you started down queasy lane with me (oh, gag).
Well, so, I guess I can trace my sugar ancestry quite succinctly here. Salty foods = ew. Sugary foods = heavenly. My sugar family tree. I did end up expanding my palette quite nicely, but it was after I left home. More on that some other time. Lately, I've really wanted to branch out a bit in the baking world, embrace my sugar roots - maybe try a new flourless cake - or something different. My lava cake production, no surprise, has been off the charts - Tony can't get enough of them and I really cannot convince him there is anything else worthwhile. Last week, I mentioned a "caramel-xyz-thing" and he said "caramel can just go ___ itself!" - partly, he was kidding; but mostly, he feels so strongly about the damn Lava cakes that he really does not like anything jockeying for its position, elbowing its way in. In his mind, if we have found the equivalent of our dessert "true love", why on earth should we still be seeking? Well, I am not Gandhi folks. I can't answer the big ones.
So, I adapted this flourless cake recipe by the incredible Alice Medrich - how could she be wrong? Told Tony about it, told him ahead of time - that this was just an experiment - I'd probably still make Lava cakes on Sunday - the day we usually have them. He tasted it yesterday. Well, I don't have to make Lava cakes today. So, we have a birth on my little sugar family tree. Glowing over here.
Inside Out Truffle Cake
This cake is dense, moist, ultra chocolate-y. It tastes like the inside of a truffle and melts in the mouth. This recipe is for an 8-inch spring-form pan.
8 large cold eggs
1 pound semisweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
8 ounces unsalted butter, cut into 1/2 inch chunks
1/4 cup strong coffee or liqueur, optional
8 inch spring-form pan
Chocolate meringue, for garnish, optional
Position the oven rack to the lower third of the oven (lower center) and preheat to 325 degrees. Line bottom of spring-form pan with parchment paper and grease the sides. Set the pan on a wide sheet of heavy-duty foil and wrap the foil up the sides, repeat for double layer. Set the pan in a larger baking pan or a roasting pan, set aside.
Melt the chocolate and butter (with optional liquor or coffee) in a double boiler, over simmering water, stirring frequently until the mixture is smooth. Meanwhile, bring a kettle of water to a boil for the water-bath. Allow chocolate mixture to cool slightly.
Using a hand held mixer, whisk the eggs at high speed until the volume of the eggs doubles, about 5 minutes. Fold 1/3 of the egg foam into the chocolate mixture with a large rubber spatula until just a few streaks of egg are still visible; fold in half of the remaining foam likewise. Fold the remaining foam into the batter until completely incorporated.
Pour the batter into the prepared spring-form and smooth the surface. Pour the boiling water into the roasting pan, about halfway up the side of the spring-form pan. Set the roasting pan on the oven rack. Bake until the cake has risen slightly, edges are just beginning to set, a thin glazed crust (like a brownie) has formed on the surface, and an instant read thermometer inserted halfway into the center of the cake registers 140 degrees, about 22-25 minutes.
Remove the spring-form pan from the water bath and set on a wire rack. Cool to room temperature. Cover and refrigerate overnight to mellow. Cake can be kept covered and refrigerated up to 4 days.
About 30 minutes before serving, remove the spring-form pan sides, invert the cake on a sheet of waxed paper, peel off parchment pan liner, and turn cake right side up on a serving platter. Serve with crumbled chocolate meringue, confectioners sugar, cocoa, or crème anglaise.
Deep Breaths.
This is not like a casserole.
6 comments:
- TP said...
This one competes with the lava cake but can't claim a victory!
- March 23, 2008 at 12:55 PM
I can just picture the waif sneaking sugar out of the cupboard. The cake looks amazing. I hope Tony has kept up his running - he's going to need the exercise! -Joan
- March 24, 2008 at 12:18 PM
- Ann said...
TP - it's a close second, but I concur.
Joan - you have the picture exactly correct - there I was, a little pixie, scaling heights just get a little taste of heaven. :)
- March 29, 2008 at 6:17 AM
Great pictures! I made a flourless cake a few months ago, and you're right, they do taste kind of like a truffle. I love the picture of hte empty plates at the end!
- April 28, 2008 at 7:40 AM
- Tami (Pixeltrash) said...
We have some similarities, you and I. My brothers and I used to take sugar and put it right on white bread and eat it like an open-faced sandwich! We did the same with mayo. EW. That gags me now, but the sugar on bread thing.... so yummular!
- June 3, 2008 at 3:12 PM
- dharmamama said...
I'm sorry - did that say a pound of chocolate? A pound?! I have found my next true love - now, whether it's you or this cake remains to be seen. ;)
- July 5, 2008 at 11:36 AM


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It's Back: the Shamrock Shake at McDonald's
Keeping tabs on the chains.
Yes, folks, it's that time of year again: America's favorite vanilla-mint milkshake, the Shamrock, is available at a McDonald's near you. For the first time ever, the 2012 edition of the frosty beverage is nationwide, available at all 14,000 Mickey D's locations in the U.S.
People go gaga over this drink: each Shamrock season, blogs (like, well, us) and news sites around the country hail its return to the McDonald's menu, and there's even an entire website, shamrockshake.com, devoted to tracking down the milkshake (which, presumably, will be a lot easier to do this year, but that hasn't stopped users from breathlessly posting local "sightings").
What is it about this soft-serve creation that gets people so fired up? Is it the slim seasonal window in which it appears, lending the drink an exotic air of inaccessibility? Was it the fact that it appeared, until now, at only a select number of locations, making the experience of finding one seem like a benediction come down from the heavens? Is it the neat color? The word "shamrock," which is fun to say? Does it have something to do with leprechaun?
It's hard to believe that its secret lies in its flavor. When I tasted one today it was sweet and creamy, topped with whipped cream and a bright Maraschino cherry, which, to be honest, made the seven-year-old Shirley Temple-loving part of me feel just a twinge of nostalgia. The one I tried had only a barely perceptible mint flavor, and since the syrup isn't blended into the shake completely, you only get a strong hit of mint if your straw happens to locate a rich vein of the green syrup. Don't get me wrong: it's rich and fatty and satisfying in a milkshakey way, but I wouldn't rush out to get another.
Tell us: do you get excited about the Shamrock shake? Will you be indulging this year? Let us know in the comments.
P.S. Don't you wish O'Grimacey still made an appearance as the Shamrock mascot?
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Attorneys General Announce Settlement Resolving Enviga Weight Loss and Calorie-Burning Claims
February 26, 2009
(Anchorage, Alaska) Acting Attorney General Richard Svobodny, with 26 other states and the District of Columbia, announced today a settlement with Coke, Nestle, and Beverage Partnership Worldwide resolving advertising claims that Enviga, a green tea beverage, will burn extra calories resulting in weight loss.
The companies agreed to add disclosures to Enviga, and any similarly formulated product, to disclaim weight loss benefits and make clear that weight loss is only possible through diet and exercise. The companies will also pay $650,000 to the states.
In 2007, the states, led by Connecticut, began an investigation into express and implied claims that drinking Enviga will burn more calories than it contains, thereby resulting in weight loss. Advertisements for Engiva claimed that consuming three cans in a day would result in increased calorie burning by up to 60 to 100 calories per day.
The companies cited a study, known as the Rudelle study, in support of this claim. While a number of study participants did experience some additional calorie burning, they did not experience weight loss, and the study did not establish that any of the calorie-burning effect could be sustained over time. Also, the study ran for only three days and consisted of a small group of normal weight, healthy 18- to 35-year olds. The limited results of the Rudelle study -- and the absence of any evidence that consuming Enivga resulted in weight loss -- prompted the attorneys general to question the implication that people in the general population would experience the same calorie burning as healthy 18- to 35-year olds in a controlled setting.
States participating in today's agreement are: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington and the District of Columbia.
For more information about the settlement, please contact Assistant Attorney General Cynthia Drinkwater at (907) 269-5200.
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Maybe we should understand languages are living things.
Toki pona is changing and it has different branches. That is great! That means it is alive and people is using it. As long as we can understand each other it is fine.
American english and british english are different from each other. They are both english.
Formal english and informal youth english are different from each other. They are both english.
-Hello. I need to tell you something: Last night I met my old friend William. He said something along the lines of "I did not expect to see you here" and I was very surprised.
-Hi. I gotta tell you, last night I met my boy Willy, and he was like "I didn't expect you here" and I was like "Whaaaat".
Those phrases are both english. One is formal, the other one is colloquial. That does not make any of them "less english".
Jan Lope is pushing a formal, restrictive grammar aiming to overcome ambiguity based on pu, and creating new rules and tools to fill the gaps. This is good.
Other people is pushing a colloquial, natural, easier to use toki pona filling or exploiting this gaps with further utilities. This is also good!
People can talk using a formal, restrictive grammar if they feel comfortable with it. It is useful for learning the language, too, as the inherent ambiguity of toki pona can be hard to grasp sometimes. Then they can shift to a more relaxed way of speaking, when they feel appropriate, and shift back when they need clarification:
tan jan olin mi la mi pona
tan pi jan olin mi la, mi ' pona
For my lover, I'm better.
What? (does that means he is the best one his lover could choose, or that he healed for her, or maybe he is better now because she helped him?)
For the cause of my lover, I am a better person.
(this example may contain mistakes as I'm still learning)
They are just different registers. Both are good. Use both of them as tools, as colors, not as flags to fight for.
nasin ali li pona. o toki ala e ni: nasin mi li nasin wan. o sona e ni: mi toki e toki pona kepeken nasin ni tan ni: nasin mi li pona tawa mi.


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I. Amazon
Amazon used to have literary ambitions. In the late '90s, the company hired professional editors who commissioned and wrote thousands of reviews a week, as well as features, interviews, and previews of forthcoming books. Later on, when the retailer began to intersperse the paid reviews with user-generated content, it retained this vision, thinking of user reviews as submissions to a literary magazine that would give the site the aura of an independent bookshop, populated by an erudite staff and clientele. Rick Ayre, then Vice President and Executive Editor of Amazon, described the tone and use of the content on Amazon.com to the New York Times in 1999: "If you spend a lot of time on the site, I hope you get a sense of the quirky, independent, literate voice, and that behind it all you're interacting with people, and that it's people who care about these things, not people who are trying to sell you these things. My mantra has always been 'the perfect context for a purchase decision.'"1


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- 2003 3 Apr
With technology connecting people like never before, there's no doubt the world has become a much smaller place. But even with the World Wide Web bridging the distance between continents, it's sometimes easy for Christians in the United States to forget that the gospel message isn't just for America. This message —fueling the artists who record and perform contemporary Christian music — is a message for the world.
But how could we illustrate that message in the pages of "CCM Magazine"? How could our staff provide a snapshot of the great big world we live in and how it relates to "faith in the spotlight"?
Actually we really didn't have to look far to find perfect spokesmen because the British rockers in Delirious have been communicating the gospel worldwide for the past 10 years. And even though many consider it to be an A-list band, the band has never graced our cover –– until now.
Delirious is adept at making incredible, guitar-driven music that inspires youth groups, Promise Keepers and rock 'n' roll fans who hang out in London's pubs. But regardless of locale, the band's songs don't differentiate between the sacred and secular.
>From huge hits in the Christian music scene like "I Could Sing of Your Love Forever" and "Deeper" that are sung in church services worldwide, to touring alongside rock icons like Bon Jovi and Bryan Adams, the band's mission does not change. And the songs' lyrics suddenly don't become more ambiguous — even when played on pop radio in Britain.
But despite its critical acclaim and commercial success, no one seems to know much more about the band that literally is a family. With four of the five guys actually brothers-in-law, they aren't afraid to tell the truth about each other's strengths and shortcomings — a trait that always makes for a compelling story. Equally interesting was the story's journey as I explored the culture, spiritual climate and music scene in Great Britain –– a trip I certainly won't forget any time soon.
>From my fascination with those bright red British phone booths to my love of Burberry plaid, theater and bands like Blur, Travis, Coldplay and the Beatles, a visit to London has always been at the top of my wish list. But little did I know that my work at "CCM Magazine" would make that dream a reality. With a scream of excitement, a look through all eight of my London travel guides and only two weeks (instead of the usual six) to secure a passport, I was off to jolly ol' England just before Christmas to begin my investigation of life on the other side of the pond.
A Rough Start
With my flight arriving in London at 9:35 p.m. instead of 9:35 a.m. as originally planned, I spent most of the day in the close quarters of an airplane. But with our own mini TVs, my reading material and snacks served every few hours, six hours whizzed by.
As I looked out the window near the end of my flight, I sat in amazement as I saw millions of lights outlining the castles, bridges and office buildings of London. I was finally here and about to brave my first experience of going through customs and taking the underground to my hotel to begin my British adventure.
Answering "both" when the agent asked me if I was visiting Europe for business or pleasure, he stamped my passport, and I lugged my suitcases to the Heathrow Express. As I boarded the train to Paddington Station, conveniently located three blocks from the Royal Eagle Hotel — my home for the remainder of the week — I heard my first English-accented voice say, "Mind the gap." Not sure whether she was a fan of the store or referring to a large space between her teeth, I noticed the words printed in front of the train and quickly assumed it meant "watch your step."
People-watching — English Style
Going to bed at 3:30 a.m. and waking up three hours later is never a good idea. But in order to catch the train to meet Delirious, sacrifices had to be made. Little did I know that taking the tube to Victoria where I'd wait for a train to Ford Station to meet the band would provide the best people-watching I'd ever experienced.
Riding the tube is a way of life in Britain, and people — like in New York City or D.C. — don't just wait for their stops. They read. And these business types don't read hard news like "The Wall Street Journal" or "The New York Times"; the majority reads tabloid-sized newspapers like the "Daily Express". Today's top stories? 'Britain Put on Terror Standby: Households to Get Attack Survival Guide' and 'Exclusive: What Really Happens to Stars After TV Soaps.' Other publications are equally intriguing in their range of "news" coverage that usually revolves around the royal family, (usually Prince William,) Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham and her soccer star husband, David, or the monetary scandal involving British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
While traveling to meet the band, I also got my first taste of the English countryside as we ventured away from the city. With grass greener than any I'd seen in the States and houses that ranged from extremely rundown to divinely decadent with elaborate architecture, the trip to Delirious' town of Arundel was an interesting study in contrasts.
Bonding with a Band at Burger King
After the Delirious interview, several hours of British melodramas (they have the cheesiest but most enjoyable commercials) and a few hours of sleep, I braved the train again (to Guildford this time) and met up with a band of up-and-comers called Sabio. With few options available for an interview locale, the band formerly known as "Fruit" and I chose the oh-so-vibey atmosphere of a nearby Burger King.
Over hot chocolate the guys, their manager and I discussed the British music scene (they've played with Delirious and a lot of acts in the local scene) our favorite bands (we all have an affinity for Coldplay), and the guys' lack of knowledge about America's contemporary Christian music world.
With a sound that's reminiscent of meat-and-potatoes American rock like Tom Petty and relative newcomers like Creed, the lyrics are confessional and don't leave much to the imagination on what they're trying to communicate. (For more details on the band, check out CCMmagazine.com.)
Worship Times Two
After 12 hours of sleep following a fun day of shopping the day before, I hailed one of those cool-looking black cabs and ventured to Watford, a small town north of London, to the Soul Survivor Church where Matt Redman ("The Heart of Worship") and Tim Hughes ("Here I Am to Worship") often lead worship. There's a chill in the air on this damp English day, but the atmosphere changes instantly when I walk into the warehouse where church is held. I'm greeted warmly and invited into the sanctuary for one of the most incredible services I've ever been to. Trying not to play the observer, I can't help being taken by the people's fervency in worshiping God. Unlike church services I've attended at home, there's no people-watching, signs of boredom from the crowd or worshipers on the verge of sleep. Instead, there's loud declarations of praise with lots of hands in the air praising God for His goodness and grace.
Later while talking to a few of the church's members, they tell me that services like this are few and far between in London, as there really aren't many devout, evangelical Christians. Asking what this could be attributed to, I'm told that attending church isn't part of the British culture. Unlike the American way, where it's part of the culture if you attend church, it's because you really want to since many in Britain tend to be skeptical by nature and cynical about faith.
Later that evening, I attended an incredible Christmas carols presentation in an ornate church in the South Kensington district of London. With candlelight, choral presentation and the retelling of the Christmas story, it was a highlight of the trip that put me right in the Christmas spirit.
My Last Day in London
As the old saying goes, "All good things must come to an end." And I still had a lot to fit in the last day. First stop? One double-decker red bus ride to Notting Hill. With the most gorgeous parks, antiques and atmosphere, I spent most of the day wandering around and taking in the view. Although I never found the house with the blue door from the movie that made that area famous (which I later found out was painted red), I picked up a few souvenirs (including my very own "Mind the Gap" keychain) before venturing to Big Ben and a few other touristy locales. While I didn't get to see a big theater production like I hoped, an art museum or the Beatles' Abbey Road tour, my first brush with British life was nothing short of extraordinary and gives me plenty to look forward to when I head back.
But more intriguing than all of the scenery, however, was my introduction to British culture. With a shadow cast over the city, spiritually speaking, like the gloomy weather that's almost a daily fixture, you won't find Jesus fish on the backs of cars, Christian bookstores or hear dc talk and Jars of Clay on a Christian radio station. But what you will find is a gracious, intriguing group of people who tend to live life with a very tongue-in-cheek approach and a great sense of humor.
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Kamala Harris has a complicated record, but her zeal to support abortion and attack its opponents has been consistent
Kamala Harris has a complicated record, but her zeal to support abortion and attack its opponents has been consistent
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U.S. District Court Judge Ed Kinkeade joked last week that Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers talks so slowly that the Senate should add an extra day to her hearings. "She gives my name four syllables-E-ye-e-d," said Mr. Kinkeade, who has known Ms. Miers for over 25 years. But there is nothing slow about the rush to judgment from both left and right following the president's surprise nomination of Ms. Miers, a relatively unknown judicial quantity.
Before and after President Bush on Oct. 3 nominated Ms. Miers to the high court, WORLD interviewed numerous Texans who have worked closely with her. Almost all see Ms. Miers as an excellent choice and emphasize what they say is her extraordinary integrity and her self-effacing nature.
They see her as an evangelical who is meek-in the biblical sense of humble strength. For 25 years she has been a member of Valley View Christian Church in Dallas, a conservative evangelical church and not one of the city's fashionable ones. Never married, she has devoted herself to work, her extended family, and her church, serving on the missions committee for 10 years, teaching children in Sunday school, making coffee, and bringing donuts.
At the same time, she's practiced corporate law in a major Texas firm. Mr. Kinkeade calls her "a superstar here in Dallas before George Bush ever entered the picture." He believes that some critics are attacking her because "she's not from the East or West coasts-didn't go to an Ivy League law school. They don't like that."
That's part of the reason, but there's more to it. Neoconservative William Kristol wrote that he was "DISAPPOINTED, depressed and demoralized." Paleoconservative Pat Buchanan wrote that the nomination was "deeply disheartening." Conservatives of the many in-between stripes who wanted another Justice Antonin Scalia, ready to rumble with rhetorical brilliance against the legal theorists of the left, expressed dismay for two principled reasons.
One major concern is that Ms. Miers has not shown a clear judicial philosophy, and that under the media and social pressures of Washington life she will shift leftward. Political analyst Larry Sabato estimates that a quarter of the Supreme Court justices appointed in the last half-century have "evolved" from conservative to moderate or liberal. Explanations for why that happens include "the Greenhouse effect"-a yearning for positive coverage by scribes such as Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times-or the desire to be termed a judicial giant by liberal historians.
A second major concern is that she doesn't fit the profile of the brilliant legal theorist that many seek in a justice. Even one of her administration backers, to whom WORLD gave off-the-record status because any public criticism of Ms. Miers would derail his career, said that "her qualities are not necessarily those that make a great constitutional law professor or a great author." He then added, "They do give her gifts that are needed on the court."
What gifts are those?
Friends who know Ms. Miers testify to her smarts but emphasize an internal compass that includes a needle pointed toward Christ. Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht says she has a philosophy that grows out of evangelical exegesis and carries over into legal issues: "She's an originalist-that's the way she takes the Bible," and that's her approach to the Constitution as well: "Originalist-it means what it says."
Justice is blind and so is friendship at times, so it's worth pointing out that Mr. Hecht, 55, has also never married; he has known Ms. Miers for 30 years and says they are "very close friends. We dated some. The relationship has been close: Platonic. . . . We go to dinner, I go to Washington for special things" with Ms. Miers, such as White House parties at Christmas, Fourth of July, and the president's birthday.
But Mr. Hecht is also an honest man and a pro-life advocate who strongly fought for parental notification laws when his court colleagues were scuttling them. Moreover, he was instrumental in teaching her about Christ: She "had a Catholic upbringing, had not been close to the church, it was off again, on again, then she came to a point in her life when she wanted to change that. . . . She made an abrupt change in 1979 or '80. She was very hard-working and successful, she wanted new meaning, substance in her life."
Mr. Hecht says that at the time of abrupt change he and she had long discussions, until one evening she called him to her office and said she was ready to make a commitment. They prayed and talked, and soon after that she was baptized at Valley View, where Mr. Hecht has been an elder.
Ron Key, for 33 years the church's pastor, concurs with that history. He says that when he and Ms. Miers met in 1980, "I don't know how strong her faith was at that time. She came to a place where she totally committed her life to Jesus. She had gone to church before, but when she came to our church it became more serious to her. . . . Our church is strong for life. . . . We believe in the biblical approach to marriage." He says Ms. Miers has been dedicated to that church for many years, tithing to it, working for it, and absorbing its teachings.
Will her compass needle turn to Washington's heavy metal once a lifetime court position is in hand and constraints are off? No one knows for sure but it seems unlikely. Mr. Hecht says she's not a social butterfly who will be swayed by Washington dinner table conversation: "She goes to the dinners she's supposed to go to. She's not on the social circuit."
Her administration colleague says she's not going to pay much mind to the good reviews she could receive from top law journals and Ivy League law professors if she were to move leftward. Ms. Miers has never run in those circles and "of the hundreds of people I knew in the White House, she's almost uniquely unaffected by Potomac fever." That's because, her friends say, she's centered on Christ.
Her friends point to her Christ-like service. Rob Mowrey, 53, an attorney who worked with Ms. Miers at their Dallas law firm and has known her since 1979, talks about how in the 1990s, with an aged mom suffering from dementia, "Harriet moved her mother not only into her own house but into her bedroom, because her mother would wake up in the night and be distraught if she wasn't right there."
Judge Kinkeade praises Ms. Miers as "a great lawyer with perfect ethics" who's willing to sacrifice herself for others. When the Texas Lottery Commission was a corrupt mess, he says, the non-gambling Ms. Miers agreed to clean it up; the judge says, "I wouldn't have taken that job if you put a shotgun on me." He says she led the fight years ago to get Dallas lawyers to do pro bono work, and led by example by volunteering to help Exodus Ministries, a Dallas organization that helps ex-prisoners to get a life outside jail.
Journalistic skepticism sets in. Jokes about unethical lawyers aren't common by accident, and Texas lawyers tend to be a particularly tough bunch.
And even if the praise for Ms. Miers is all true, is it part of a spin cycle that distracts attention from question No. 2: Why should we think that gifts of self-sacrifice are needed on a court that has in recent years resembled a pit of vipers? Doesn't it need another conservative whose convincing writings can sway an entire generation of legal theorists?
Many conservatives are frustrated that Democrats nominate ideologues such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg who breeze to easy confirmation, but George W. Bush is pushing what they call a nice nonentity instead of one of the many brilliant jurists who have stood for conservative principle and could lead others to do the same. As columnist Michelle Malkin argues, "President Bush tells us that he knows his White House counsel Harriet Miers' heart. I have no doubt that it is a good one. But a good heart does not a great Supreme Court justice make."
That's a good debate to have. It's George W. Bush's analysis that "heart" is crucial, since a good mind by itself also does not a great justice make. And the Miers nomination is classic Bush. Nearly six years ago, when asked in an early debate among Republican presidential candidates to name his favorite philosopher, Mr. Bush famously said, "Christ, because He changed my heart."
Quin Hillyer, a blogger at confirmthem .com, exhibits the scorn of some conservatives for this "heart" emphasis: "I don't care if the Tin Woodsman (pre-wizard visit) is a judge as long as his brain can understand the importance of individual property rights."
But what's crucial is that a self-effacing nature bodes well for the upholding of an originalist position wherein justices are servants of the text rather than masters of it. This goes beyond the question of "identity politics" (yeah, let's give a spot to an evangelical with "heart"). Understanding of property rights is important, but even more important in withstanding leftward-ho tendencies is the realization that the Supremes are not Supreme.
Evangelical leaders have generally supported Ms. Miers as part of a faith-in-Bush initiative. Jan LaRue, chief counsel for Concerned Women for America, said, "We're giving the president the benefit of the doubt based on his record thus far in nominating judges." Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said, "We have a president with a track record of making nominations in keeping with his own philosophy on the judiciary, that of judicial restraint." Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, American Family Association president Tim Wildmon, and Richard Land, head of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, also gave President Bush the benefit of the doubt.
That faith is likely to be tested first in Judiciary Committee hearings, which should be more interesting than usual since Ms. Miers is not a practiced public performer. It will be tested further if Ms. Miers is confirmed and her initial rulings disappoint evangelicals and conservatives.
This seems unlikely, but the standard for assessing Supreme Court nominations is preponderance of evidence, not proof beyond the shadow of doubt. Some also apply Paul's teaching in chapter one of his first epistle to the Corinthians: "Where is the one who is wise? . . . Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? . . . God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise."
If President Bush and supporters of the Miers nomination are wrong, the Supreme Court won't change but the Republican Party will, as millions of conservatives see GOP rule as shameful and look elsewhere for leadership.


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Lauren Hall Wins Fort Follies GP, Team Sweeps Jersey Classification
Leah Kirchmann Third in Field Sprint in Downtown Fort Collins, CO
Lauren Hall and her Optum Pro Cycling presented by Kelly Benefit Strategies teammates put on a dominant display in downtown Fort Collins Saturday, winning the field sprint and claiming all three pro jersey classifications at the inaugural Fort Follies GP.
The 5-woman team attacked the race from the gun, claiming nearly every prime available on the 1 mile downtown Fort Collins course on their way to the top step of the podium. Brianna Walle claimed the Most Aggressive Rider jersey for her work at the front of affairs, keeping any would-be breakaways in check to preserve the opportunity for Hall in the field sprint. Hall claimed the sprinter's classification prize along with her win at the sixty minute race, and Leah Kirchmann won the best young rider classification.
"The leadout train was great today - Leah and Jade really dialed things in at Elk Grove and I trust them with everything coming out of the last corner," said Hall. "Leah pulled through to the front of the race and started sprinting right after the last corner, and she led me all the way to the finish. I looked back twice at 250 and 100 meters to go, and we had a really good gap, so I knew we wouldn't get caught."
The win will be the last on American soil for the Orange and Black women – they depart Monday for León, Spain, joining teammates Joelle Numainville, Janel Holcomb, and Denise Ramsden for a racing campaign in France and Italy culminating in the Team Time Trial World Championships in Tuscany, Italy on September 22nd.
"The win here is a good confidence booster going into such big campaign in Europe," added Hall. "Any chance to work on the leadout and have it be successful is always a good thing. All of us are very excited to get to Europe and start building form for the World Championship."
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The head of the Federal Aviation Administration's unmanned aircraft office has disclosed that an American Airlines regional jet was nearly struck by a small unmanned aircraft in March near Tallahassee Regional Airport. The aircraft was flying at approximately 2,300 feet, well above the ceiling allowed for hobbyist aircraft.
"The airline pilot said that he thought it was so close to his jet that he was sure he had collided with it," said Jim Williams, manager of the FAA's Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Office during a speech at the Small Unmanned Systems Business Expo in San Francisco yesterday.
In the speech, which has been posted to YouTube, Williams said that the aircraft was a small, fixed-wing airplane with "a camouflage paint job." An inspection of the passenger jet after landing found that there was no damage, but Williams added that "the risk for a small [unmanned air system] to be injested into a passenger airliner's engine is very real." He invoked the "Miracle on the Hudson" episode, where a US Airways Airbus was forced to "land" in the Hudson river after a goose strike took out its engine, saying, "Imagine a metal and plastic aircraft—especially that big lithium battery—going into a high-speed turbine engine. The results could be catastrophic."
The FAA is still working on regulations to govern unmanned aircraft, including the development of "detect and avoid" system standards for drones that would alert remote pilots or autonomous systems to collision threats with aircraft or other airborne hazards so the land-bound pilots could maneuver away from them. These standards will likely be part of the design and construction standards for most unmanned aircraft.
Aside from design standards, the biggest concern the FAA has is setting standards for how unmanned systems operators fly their aircraft. Williams pointed out the case of Raphael Pirker, who the FAA fined for flying a first-person-view, remote-controlled aircraft to film video for a hospital advertisement. "He flew close to an active heliport, under a pedestrian bridge, and so close to one person that they had to leap out of the way," Williams said. "After a thorough investigation, the FAA assessed Mr. Pirker a $10,000 penalty for unsafe UAS operation."
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Ferrari Classiche isn't just a secret society for wealthy Ferrari owners to smoke Cuban cigars and plot world domination — it's also the factory-owned shop for restoring old models. This year, its annual drive included a leisurely float through Venice.
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Why I Am Not Sold On Peyton Manning For Seahawks
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We have seen a fair amount of turnover at the O coordinator position in Seattle, and while Pete Carroll is building something that is getting attention, I don't think his public approval rating is much higher than Obamas.
So, to speculate that 2-3 years of Manning could potentially derail an offense, that history has shown, is likely to change, shouldn't be too much of a concern.
The backups that Manning would groom, you mentioned 1 who is undrafted 3rd stringer (behind Whitehurst), and another who is pure speculation. That thought doesn't hold water.
Carroll's offense this year, I believe, had a lot to do with who the QB was. Jackson was asked to do very little. TJack had 108 yards rushing this year, there are only 7 QB's that had less. Yet Pete said before the combine to ESPN's Mike Sando that "we'd like to have a guy that can run a little bit and complement the running game and do something for us — get out on the edge and threaten enough to keep the run game that we're so committed to alive and at its best." That is the opposite of what he showed this year with Jackson. Which leads me to believe, the offense we have seen the last 2 years, is built to suit the QB the team has.
While I'm not leading the Peyton bandwagon, he has publicly said he will take an incentive latent deal, and certainly represents an improvement over Jackson, a QB in the draft, or signing the 7th round pick with 2 starts out of Green Bay.
Peyton has vision on the field, instincts, and leadership. You can't teach those things.
While I wouldn't tell anyone to blindly support singing Manning, I don't agree with the argument to not sign him.
If Manning is not signed immediately when the free agency starts, and even not before the draft, Seattle might become a realistic option for him because most of the other QB needy teams have already filled the position at that point. The only reason why this would happen is his health, and getting confirmation about it. This does not seem very likely but at that point it is a question of money whether signing him would be a good idea.
Meanwhile I think that Kyle Orton might be the guy who could competition to Tarvaris and possibly even already has those "Clutch Game Manager" -skills that Carroll has said he is after. Not a bad option at all.
Jeff Fritchman
If we have Manning /Wayne $$ available, then hand Flynn a chunky check and don't change your entire offense for a 2 year(possibly) noodle armed QB. Then groom this offense into a perennial balanced powerhouse and spend the change on your drafted pass rush…championship!!
This article makes many good points! I personally don't want the Seahawks to have any part in the Peyton Manning medical experiment. Because that is exactly what it is!
You present a very good case, but overall I just disagree.
In my opinion, you're just nitpicking. This sort of reminds me of what happens around draft time every year.
i agree that there is signifcant risk to Manning and it's not a slam-dunk. But wasn't signing Drew Brees coming off major shoulder surgery somewhat similar, despite the age difference. I'm sure many Miami fans at the time could've written a similar piece.
And really? Saying Josh Portis' development as a drawback for one of the best QBs of all-time seems insanely ridiculous to me.
Yeah the Favre thing might have set the Vikings back. But overall their poor drafting did.
Listen to Brock Huard when he talks about Peyton. I find your article to be very good logic on why there's risk in signing Manning but not wanting the Seahawks to get Peyton just boggles my mind.
You're cons are all well-written and insightful but the pro's are just so much bigger. If Schneider/Carroll are willing to go "all-in" like the national media guys are saying, I think most of us should be too.
Dan Heinrich
"All in" is fine, but know the risks. For Brian, those risks are too great. The big one to me is the injury. So the Hawks go all in, scrap what they had been building for a huge potential reward and the guy plays three games and goes down under a career ending sack. Think there's no chance of that? How mobile is Manning now? What happens when Okung has another high ankle sprain? How good will his protection be then? Manning is enormously talented no doubt, but no one really knows what injured Manning is capable of. Those who have had the best look, the Colts, said no thanks. If Manning does come here (and I think he is going to replace Hasselback in Tennessee; sorry, Matt), I will be very excited for the possibilities, and pee my pants scared every time he drops back.
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Your cons are very well thought out and they should be laid out in the manner in which you did. There is always a buyer beware, and with Manning, it's the unknown that makes this a scary proposition. Here is what I will say though, I believe Pete Carroll needs to deliver at title in year three or four. A ton was promised that he needs to deliver on. I'm not saying a Super Bowl this season, but he does need to deliver a deep playoff run, with a potential Super Bowl appearance in 2013. With Tarvaris Jackson, Josh Portis, or whoever the Seahawks draft, that doesn't deliver the results that I believe are required. No disrespect to Jackson, but he cannot deliver the goods.I understand these consequences fully, but we also know what Manning's upside is when healthy. This would be questionable move, no doubt, but it would be a gamble well worth the risk because of what it could deliver. And that IS the bottom line.
I just heard one of your guys on KJR talking about this and must say that you should be more choosy when putting comments out in the mainstream media.
The guy talking was absolutely inane and was trying to argue with former (long-time) NFL QB Hugh Millen. It's clear your guy has never played the game and has very limited or no experience in it.
Hawks: Sign Manning now.
No. Just, No. I love Payton Manning. I want him to win a superbowl to stick it to the
Colts. I just don't see him fitting into the situation here in Seattle.
Unless he is clearly coming in to learn our system, and mentor our future quarterback, then no thank you. Go stick it to the Colts somewhere else. I will root for the guy (unless he goes to San Fran or Ariz).
I don't mind Seattle looking into him. Maybe he is willing to be a much better stop gap thatn what we have. But that's what we need is a transition quarterback (like TJack). I 'm not sure Manning wants to be viewed that way. I think we could win a superbowl with him, but he would still be a temporary solution.
Payton is only a good idea for Seattle if he's willing to mentor in the real QB of the future.
Seahawks are a joke. PM isn't going there, and neither are any prized free agents anytime soon. Pete Carrol is a horrible coach, and that division is a absolute joke.


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Confessor, Doctor of the Church, Bishop of Seville, born Cartagena, Spain, 560; died Seville, Spain, 636. He was younger brother to Saint Fulgentius of Astigi and Saint Florentina, and succeeded his brother Leander to the See of Seville in 599. During his episcopacy he devoted his energies to promoting science, establishing schools and convents, and welding into a homogeneous nation the various peoples composing the Hispano-Gothic kingdom. He presided over the synod of Seville, 619, and the synod of Toledo, 633. He is important for his literary work, and mastered all branches of knowledge of his day. Emblems: bees and a pen. Relics in own church, Leon. Feast, Roman Calendar, 4 April.
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I saw this on ESPN.com the other night and I heard he was visiting this week. Jay Harris is ranked as the No. 15 point guard in the nation and No. 64 overall.
The 6'0″ guard from Oswego, IL, is looking at NDSU as well as the University of Northern Iowa and Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.
"Harris has a great feel for the game with his ball handing, passing, the ability to finish in transition and making plays one on one. Harris can also score in a variety of ways in addition to his ability to get his own shot. He can spot up behind the arc on the side of dribble penetration, come off screens and attack the basket in transition. Harris is terrific at scoring over or around taller defenders although his must get stronger in order to be as successful on the next level. Playing with Boatright really allowed Harris to be very productive at the shooting guard position although he is a true point. Harris also displayed the ability to defend both guard positions and he came up with a couple on ball and cover down post steals with his quick hands. Harris has the talent and basketball IQ to be a terrific college lead guard but he must make the weight room a priority" From ESPN.com.
If Harris signs, he would be the first Top 100 player to commit to the play in Fargo starting in the 2010 season, and the single biggest signing in NDSU basketball history.
Trayvonn Wirght, the 6'7″ 175 pound power forward from Waterloo, IA, has already signed to play for coach Saul Phillips and is rated as the 77th best power forward in the country.
"Wright excels in open court situations where he can use his athleticism to his benefit. He has the ability to score the ball in the paint with different finishes and uses the rim wisely to protect himself. Trayvonn was able to rebound the ball outside of his area and grab the ball at its highest point. However, he was uncomfortable with physical play and needs to learn how to take advantage of his quickness to combat opponent's strength. Wright has limitations with his ball handling skills; he has no lateral movement in his dribble and cannot easily shift positions; when cut off on drives, he will spin. He has made tremendous strides since the end of the high school season and has a lot of upside." From ESPN.com.
Landing those two players would be another substantial building block to the foundation that was laid with the plan to; sit the four seniors, Ben Woodside, Brent Winkelmen, Mike Nelson, Lucas Moormann, win the conference, and play in the NCAA tourney the first year eligible. We could not imgaine the extra hype of Woodside dropping 60 and getting Sportcenter shout-outs. But it helped.
The 2009-10 season may not be as successful in terms of wins, trophies and accolades, but it is necessary in building this program to the next level.


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I'm reading a cryptanalysis on Blowfish, and I've come across something that I don't quite get. Let's denote
$$\delta = a \oplus a'$$
where a and a' are bytes that cause a collision in some S-box when entered as the position to use in said box.
The structure of Blowfish looks like this:
with N+2 positions in P, where N is the number of rounds. Every zero represents one zero-byte. For each plaintext pair where $$P \oplus P' = [0000\delta000]$$ we will get some corresponding ciphertext pairs where $$C \oplus C' = [\delta000xyzt]$$ We denote $$C = (L,R)$$ Now, the cryptanalysis claims that we have the equation $$F(L \oplus P_{N+2}) \oplus F(L \oplus P_{N+2} \oplus [\delta000]) = [xyzt]$$ This is where I get stuck. I don't really see the connection, as the last position in the subkey array P is actually never part of any input to F(), except for in the decryption function, but I don't see how we end up with this algorithm that way either. Any ideas?
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What has gone unmentioned in the media reports I've seen is Pedroia's out-of-the-basepath slide into Derek Jeter in the second inning. (You can't see the bag in photo #13 at the Globe, but it's about seven feet to the left.)
Pedroia's slide was clean -- trying to break up what turned out to be a 4-6-3 double play -- but he was pretty far away from the bag. Possibly something we'd be bitching about if the roles were reversed.
Headlines from the Post (Back To Reality) and Daily News (Clutch Klutzes)
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As the long fly ball off the bat of Manny Ramirez sailed over the left-field wall and deep into the seats, it was as if all the air had been sucked out of not just one game, but an entire season.
Yes, it's only May with four months of baseball to be played, but Ramirez's three-run home run in the first inning last night continued a pattern that likely isn't going to change with the calendar.


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If you believe some political pundits, our nation is hopelessly divided. But as two former Colorado governors — one Democrat, one Republican — we think the pundits are wrong. True, the extreme voices in most debates get more media attention, but what the public really wants, and eventually demands, is common ground. Just ask 67 percent of voters in a recent Bipartisan Policy Center survey, who indicated they want people to "work across party lines and engage in give-and-take to try to come up with solutions."
Today, there are few better examples of common ground than energy — specifically, the tremendous increase in homegrown oil and natural gas production made possible by hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking." Elected officials from both parties — and from the president on down — have correctly noted the positive impact that this renewed American drive for energy independence is having on the U.S. economy.
On June 24, residents in Loveland will be asked to vote on a false choice being presented to them when they receive a local ballot concerning whether or not to place a moratorium on fracking. As governors, we've had the privilege of learning firsthand that oil and natural gas is being responsibly developed in Colorado. We recently joined Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development to make sure more Coloradans know about the great things happening right here in our own state. And we feel obligated to publicly reject this false choice being presented to Colorado's voters — that we have to choose either energy production or a pristine environment. The truth is we can have both.
Fracking isn't a political belief; it's a technology. In Colorado, it's used to open tiny fractures in deep shale formations, which are trapped below a mile or more of solid rock. Fracking lasts just a few days and takes place after a well has been drilled, reinforced with multiple steel and cement barriers, and tested to ensure the water table near the surface is protected. Water, sand and a tiny percentage of chemical additives are injected thousands of feet down the well until there's enough pressure to crack the shale and access the oil and gas trapped inside. Without those cracks, the oil and gas cannot flow into the well.
Fracking was pioneered in the 1940s and has been closely studied, tightly regulated and constantly improved by experts inside and outside the industry. It's been safely used more than a million times across the nation.
The oil and natural gas industry isn't perfect — no industry is. But the so-called debate over fracking is nowhere near as controversial as Loveland residents have been told by "ban fracking" groups campaigning in our state. There's too much fear, division and political ideology in Colorado's fracking debate. Together, we can go the extra mile and let's work together to make good decisions based on the facts.
Democrat Roy Romer and Republican Bill Owens have served as governor of the state of Colorado. Now, both are co-chairmen of Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development.


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DIFF has announced a record number of submissions for the upcoming 10th edition of the festival in December.
Receiving over 3,500 film submissions from 143 countries, the overwhelming response and over 60% increase from 2012 reaffirms that filmmakers from around the world are keen to participate in DIFF.
Since the inaugural Festival back in 2004 the number of submissions has risen year on year with an encouraging increase from the Arab world which this year contributes to 35% of the submissions.
The diverse selection of submissions saw films coming from some first time entrants including Belarus, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Laos and Puerto Rico.
From South Asia there were dramatic increases in the number of film submissions from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka. And from Europe there was a boost from many countries with Denmark, Spain and Belgium doubling their film submissions from last year.
Submissions from North America also escalated with submissions doubling from Canada and encouraging growth from the United States. Closer to home there was an encouraging rise from Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Bahrain, Lebanon and Morocco with submissions from Qatar doubling.
Masoud Amralla Al Ali, Artistic Director, Dubai International Film Festival, said: "Every year we receive a high amount of submissions but this year we have been blown away by the high calibre, quality filmmakers who have sent in their films to be considered for our decennial addition. It's encouraging to once again see an increase in submissions from the region and the past 12 months have seen a significant number of Arab films succeed at an international level. Several regional and international films presented at DIFF last year and films from this year's Festival are currently being considered for the Oscars from their respective countries such as Egypt's contender
"Winter of Discontent" from Ibrahim El Batout, Saudi Arabia's contender "Wadjda" from Haifaa Al Mansour, Lebanon's representative "Blind Intersections" from Lara Saba, Iran's entry "The Past" from Asghar Farhad and from Italy The Great Beauty from Paolo Sorrentino. With such a diverse selection of submissions to choose from we are in position to bring the very best of cinema to DIFF audiences this December."


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Kia Cross GT is introduced at 2013 Chicago Auto Show
CHICAGO - Kia Motors Corp unveiled a concept version of a large, luxury crossover vehicle on Thursday that represents a crucial part of the South Korean automaker's effort to compete with more upscale brands in the U.S. auto market.
The Cross GT concept, shown at the Chicago Auto Show, is another sign of Kia's newfound direction under Peter Schreyer, who has overhauled Kia's designs since joining the company from Audi in 2006.
This new push was first hinted at nearly two years ago with the Kia GT concept, a rear-wheel-drive sedan, which, like the Cross GT, was developed by Schreyer, now Kia president and head of design for both Kia and its sister company Hyundai.
Schreyer, a German designer known as the creative brain behind the Audi TT, said the GT was a "new frontier" for Kia.
"The Cross GT, with its raised stance and large cargo area, allows us to envision the GT in the form of a full-size luxury crossover," he added in a statement.
The Cross GT concept would be larger and more upscale than the current Kia Sorento crossover. The Cross GT is built on the same platform as the Hyundai Genesis, Hyundai's premium sedan, and was designed at Kia's design center in Irvine, Calif.
The Cross GT is more than 8 inches longer and about 5 inches wider than the Sorento. The concept's wheelbase is 122 inches, nearly 16 inches longer than the Sorento.
The Cross GT illustrates Kia's intention to gain a foothold in the fast-growing luxury crossover segment in both the United States and China.
Many other automakers are also rolling out offerings in the space, such as the Lincoln MKC, Ford Motor Co's first premium compact crossover due out next year. Volkswagen AG's Audi is also planning to expand its U.S. crossover lineup next year.


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Hello Freesco support,
Again i need some help to make a full backup of my /www directory on USB stick, directly from my Freesco 0.38 via telnet.
i think it would be the following, plse can someone check and tell me if it's ok, before i mess up the system.....
1. i logon with root on the system via telnet
2. i put the usb (FAT 32) stick in the system
3. use the command: # fdisk -l to find out what the usb stick is called... (has to be something like this: /dev/sdb1)..
4. I have to creat a new directory in /mnt so i can mount the drive onto the filesystem?... kind of: # mkdir /media/usb
5. i have to mount the usb drive (something like this) : # mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usb
6. then i use the copy command: # rsync -rv /www /media/usb/ or # rsync -avh /www /media/usb/ (dont know wich command is better..?)
7. when done i use the command # umount /media/usb
above information i create with the help of the following site: http://askubuntu.com/questions/37767/ho ... flash-driv
are these steps OK to create my /www backup, or maybe there is a more easy way to create a backup on usb stick via telnet.
Thx! again and best regards, Maikel


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Webtools Toolbox
Our colleagues in Urbana-Champaign have created some easy-to-use tools for University of Illinois employees and departments. All UIS faculty and staff may take advantage of these tools. In some cases, students may not create tools but may maintain them.
Included in the Webtools Toolbox are a calendar tool, a survey tool, and a form tool. Also available are the Email+, List Builder*, Short URL tools and more. [*List Builder Retirement Reminder]
These tools make it easy for you to accomplish your goals via the web without needing to hire an experienced web developer.
- Login to the Webtools Toolbox (login with your UIS NetID)
CAUTION: If someone creates a tool for your department, be sure that another full-time member of your department is assigned Administrator "privileges" to access the tool. Otherwise, if the creator leaves, no one in the department will be able to access the tool.
Support for the Webtools Toolbox
We have created a set of Webtools handouts that you can use to create a new calendar, add user privileges, create a form, etc. If you require help creating or maintaining a tool in the Webtools Toolbox, please fill out this web request form.
Using the Webtools Toolbox is the best way to learn about them.
The tools are actually quite easy to learn. People who jump in and try something are off and running in no time. The Webtools Calendar is the easiest tool to try first.
Once you login to the Webtools Toolbox, you will find links to more resources, as well as links to the tools themselves. Help is available on the Webtools Toolbox homepage and via Help buttons within some of the tools.
Users from UIS are welcome to attend the free workshops at UIUC. Look for their workshop schedule on the Webtools Toolbox homepage. And look for the link to sign up for their ListServ. Then you will see emails from the entire UIUC community of Webtools Toolbox users.
Also, assistance from the UIS Office of Web Services centers on the operation of the tools themselves. Persons seeking instructional design assistance – for example, designing survey questions to elicit the info you need – may want to contact the Survey Research Office, or another staff or faculty member who has pedagogical knowledge.
Finally, we find that UIS campus website Editors and Webtools Toolbox users are great about helping each other. Find another Webtools Toolbox user and pick their brain!


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Marx Trot 2014
Marx Trot IS on sunday 13 July, starts at 2.30 archway tube…
A day of revolutionary dawdling, pints, and ending up awash somewhere on Tottenham Court Rd… The annual Marx trot this year will be on Sunday 13 July. All welcome. Lal Salaam!
We will again be leaving from Archway tube 2:30 pm, then to Highgate Cemetery Marx's Grave about 3pm – heading across the Heath to the Lord Southampton pub which was the old man's local on Grafton Terrace – then onwards to Engels' house, then to the pub where the Manifesto was adopted by the Communist League, – now a crappy cocktail bar – and more… All welcome (kids could surely come for the first couple of hours – but warning, its a longish walk across the heath between Highgate and the Grafton Terrace House BYO libations for the first part).


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This Black History Month, we honor the GAME CHANGERS: Everyday heroes whose actions make life better for the people around them. SEE ALL OUR GAME CHANGERS HERE.
Jason Moran
Place of residence: New York City
Why he's a Game Changer: Moran, 38, an international jazz musician, is increasingly becoming an ambassador for the art form while remaining one of its top practitioners. He was named Artistic Adviser for Jazz at the Kennedy Center. He was also the recipient of a 2011 McArthur Fellowship and has received Downbeat magazine's Jazz Artist of the Year Award for 2011.
It's this combination of a deep respect and understanding of the canon but a recognition of how things change that has many critics praising Moran's work.
"Jazz is a global cultural phenomena as is Hip Hop," Moran told me in a July interview. "As jazz morphs, the audience is supposed to change with it," he added.
He's also interested in nurturing the next generation of artists. Despite traveling the world, and teaching, he finds local jazz efforts, such as Harlem Stage, of great importance.
"I'll play in New York and then got to Poland and Japan, but the question remains how does anything artists create in the community stay in the community," asked Moran in the same interview. "Harlem Stage allows me to still sprinkle the salt uptown to the people who live in the neighborhood."
The Washington Post writes the following about his appointment as Artistic Adviser for Jazz at the Kennedy Center:
One of Moran's primary tasks will be to strike that at-times elusive balance between honoring jazz tradition and pushing innovation. Moran, who has played with the likes of Greg Osby, Joe Lovano, Lee Konitz, Christian McBride, and Cassandra Wilson, is generally seen as a musical innovator who blends the traditions of blues and jazz with more modern elements of funk, rock, and hip-hop.
He has received several 'Rising Star' awards from Downbeat magazine's critics polls, as well as a 2010 MacArthur fellowship, and has released eight albums, both solo and with his group, the Bandwagon. He has become a prolific collaborator, particularly in the past five years, forging dialogue between jazz and the visual arts, dance, documentary film, and other musical traditions.
Jazz Pianist Soars Ahead But Doesn't Forget His Roots was originally published on newsone.com


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ENGS 106: Numerical Linear Algebra
Identical to COSC 271
The course examines, in the context of modern computational practice, algorithms for solving linear systems Ax = b and Ax = x. Matrix decomposition algorithms, matrix inversion, and eigenvector expansions are studied. Algorithms for special matrix classes are featured, including symmetric positive definite matrices, banded matrices, and sparse matrices. Error analysis and complexity analysis of the algorithms are covered. The algorithms are implemented for selected examples chosen from elimination methods (linear systems), least squares (filters), linear programming, incidence matrices (networks and graphs), diagonalization (convolution), sparse matrices (partial differential equations).


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Around the League: January 30, 2012 – February 5, 2012
For the remainder of the off season, we will provide you with a quick trip around MLB to recap what has happened in the past week, thanks for following.
Monday, January 30, 2012
- Victor Martinez had micro-fracture surgery to repair the medial and lateral meniscus in his left knee. He expects to have ACL surgery in six-to-eight weeks, officially ending his 2011 season before it started.
- Pat Burrell retired at the age of 35 due to chronic foot injury.
- Manager Ron Washington received a two-year extension through 2014.
- Orioles sign RHP Pat Neshek, C Ronny Paulino, and 17 year old LHP Seong-Min Kim to minor league contracts.
- Brewers sign former Cub outfielder Corey Patterson to a minor league contract.
- Yankees sign RHP Manny Delcarmen to a minor league contract
Continue reading "Around the League: Week of January 30, 2012"


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Have you ever thought of doing a business that doesn't require costs, but you're misty about what you are going to do? In this case, Local Business Marketing and Consulting Service is a choice you can consider. These services is all about helping the local business owners achieve their success by exposing their businesses to the internet to the fullest extent with online marketing services. These services mostly focus on:
• Marketing & strategy development: Marketing & brand consulting, project management, marketing strategy.
• Digital content: website, landing page, blog, mobile app
• Search engine services: SEO, Google display network,
• Social media: Content development, driving engagement, games, advertising on Facebook, twitter, etc.
• Email marketing: Email marketing system deployment, email design, content development and management
• Design: Brand identity packages, brochures, flyers, banners, websites and apps.
• Market research: quantitative, qualitative, measurements, online surveys.
If these things catch your interest, you definitely choose the right time. The reason is local businesses (small and medium companies) are all looking to come online and learn the strategies and techniques to propel their brands. Old fashioned marketing methods like Yellow Pages, Magazine or newspapers Ads, etc. costs too much and bear less fruits. It is estimated that 75% of small business have websites, 35% of them have mobile sites. When selling online, 64% of them say the internet has increased their revenue and sales, 48% of them feel the internet expand geographic reach in the US, and 73% of them save money by decreasing the admin costs.
Local Business Consulting is fun when you know the psychology of your market and what makes them tick. If someone lost everything and had to start over from scratch, I suggest Local Business Consulting should be a start over to look at. It is because you can kick-start your consulting career with no money, risk-free and with little effort. To be successful, what you should do is all about being able to provide value and to position yourself as an authority and expert. People will chase you from far and wide because Local SEO consultants are in huge demand.
Despite the potential of the business, many questions may come across your mind like: The list items are too much, how can I do it when I'm not an expert on those things? Would it take too much time? How can I find clients? … In a nutshell, what is the profitable strategy approach for those marketing services? From what I learned, it's all simple in these principles:
1. You don't need to be an expert.
Your clients do not care about the costs involved just as long as the results pay back in huge dividends. It means you are the person who collects the ideas for the valuable solutions to your clients. You should first develop a network of the supporters who are ready to provide advices for the solutions. So, the steps are simple: collecting solution pieces > taking project (50% upfront of cash) > allocating works in the network > completing project (50% after finishing projects).
2. Find clients in online market place.
Thanks to technology, Local Consulting Business is easier now than ever. You can start with the sites like freelancer, guru, etc. The first startup may be humble, but you can base on that and build a place of your own (blog or website) in the future. You can start to focus offering just one service like web maintenance & web design first by signing small contracts, around $200 for starting. The best industry to approach should be small businesses like Pizzerias, pool maintenance, local contractors, small restaurants, etc. You can also try to get your local clients by cold calling offering a live free demo. Although you might sweat when hearing the word cold call, but it's worth a try. However, for landing high paying clients, social networking, PPC ads and referrals are the keys. Online Marketing Consulting can be found in a variety of places but it is better if you attract those who are utilizing the mediums which you are currently leveraging like YouTube, MySpace, Facebook & Twitter because they will convert at a much higher rate. If you got money to invest in PPC campaigns, use that method. If not, just forget it, we can move up step by step. It's a good strategy when making people come and ask you to work with them.
3. Integrity is the best policy.
Local Business Consulting should be honest with the small business owners. When working with clients, you should keep asking what value you can start providing to increase their profits enough that they gladly pay you that much and try to help businesses to brand themselves effectively so that they can become the HUNTED instead of the HUNTER. When consulting with local businesses all you need to be aware of is their hunger to succeed and the only thing that really matters is the bottom line.
Local Business Consulting is here to stay but are you going to grab your piece of the digital pie before the masses take over. Local Business Consulting is extremely powerful when you mix the advantages of offline marketing because you truly can captivate your audience and target market. You can start Local Business Consulting as fast as today. So, you can design your lifestyle of what you truly deserve.
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A committee of local residents tasked with developing a plan to spend $12.1 million on Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts in Bellmore and Merrick held its first meeting last week, at which committee members, a team of consultants provided by the state and a handful of residents discussed project ideas and offered input on how they believe the committee should move forward.
In July, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that his administration was launching the New York Rising Community Reconstruction Program, which set aside more than $750 million for dozens of communities across Long Island and upstate New York to rebuild after Tropical Storms Irene and Lee and Superstorm Sandy. The funding comprises more than $250 million in FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Program funds and $500 million in federal supplemental appropriation money, a small part of the $30 billion that Congress approved for New York last January.
New York Rising allocates specific amounts of money for each community based on "FEMA-assessed damage levels," according to a Cuomo press release, including $25 million for Long Beach, $22 million for Oceanside, $18 million for Freeport and $14 million for Massapequa. Merrick can receive $6.4 million, and Bellmore, nearly $5.67 million. The funding will depend on the plan that the Bellmore-Merrick committee creates for "new infrastructure and other mitigation," Cuomo's release stated. Bellmore-Merrick could become eligible for an additional $3 million, depending on the state's judgment of the strength of the committee's plan, according to the Bellmore-Merrick committee's co-chairmen.


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Good Material by Shrinivas ChoudaryVerified Buyer Sep, 2020
I have ordered X Queen Size Metal Bed. I received the delivery within 5 days, it's a nice one. Assembly was done within 15 mins. Material is good and light weight. Worth for money
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Light & Sturdy by Robin AshVerified Buyer Sep, 2020
3 days ago-
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Solid Quality by Balaji SVerified Buyer Sep, 2020
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Can trust Vyom by Vaibhav KumarVerified Buyer Sep, 2020
I had been searching for a good study table when I came across Vyom furniture. Initially, I was sceptical regarding buying furniture online and had searched locally before settling on my current purchase, as it seemed better.
After the table arrived, it exceeded all my expectations and its build quality is superior compared to whatever I could find locally. Also, installation was super easy. Eyes closed anyone could trust vyom.
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Good Finish by Viswa NathVerified Buyer Sep, 2020
I am really satisfied with the product and the service given by VYOM and timely delivered. Some of the key features I liked about this product are
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2. Easy to assemble or disassemble
3. Metal and paint used are of good quality
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5.its light and strong
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Best Quality & Design by Ramesh BabuVerified Buyer Sep, 2020
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Amazing Fit, Finish, Quality by Jaison MatthewVerified Buyer Sep, 2020
Recently I bought a 'clover king size metal bed' from Vyom designs. After a lot of research, I have decided to go for it. but still I had some confusions and doubts about the quality of the product. But once I received the bed, I just wanted to say that, it is AMAZING. Its fit and finish, quality of the material, painting finish, all are excellent. Now I have
decided to buy some more products from Vyom. So if you are considering quality products, without any doubts I am suggesting Vyom products, Its worth of our money, and also their delivery and assembling team is very professional. And I have directly spoke to the management and they clarified all my doubts, So my overall experience is amazing and I would like to give full rating to the entire Vyom team.
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Sylius Documentation¶
Sylius is a modern e-commerce solution for PHP, based on Symfony Framework.
This documentation assumes you have a working knowledge of the Symfony Framework. If you're not familiar with Symfony, please start with reading the Quick Tour from the Symfony documentation.
The Book, Customization Guide, REST API Reference, Cookbook, Contribution Guide and Behat Guide are chapters describing the usage of the whole Sylius platform, on the examples for Sylius-Standard distribution.
For tips on using only some bundles of Sylius head to Bundles and Components docs.
Getting Started with Sylius¶
The essential guide for the Sylius newcomers that want to know it's most important features, quickly see the power of customization and run their first Sylius shop within a few hours.
The Book¶
The Developer's guide to leveraging the flexibility of Sylius. Here you will find all the concepts used in the Sylius platform. The Book helps to understand how Sylius works.
The Customization Guide¶
The Customization Guide is helpful while wanting to adapt Sylius to your personal business needs.
- Customizing Models
- Customizing Forms
- Customizing Repositories
- Customizing Factories
- Customizing Controllers
- Customizing Validation
- Customizing Menus
- Customizing Templates
- Customizing Translations
- Customizing Flashes
- Customizing State Machines
- Customizing Grids
- Customizing Fixtures
- Customizing Fixture Suites
- Tips & Tricks
Theming Guide¶
The Theming Guide is useful when trying do develop custom layout for Sylius shops.
Plugin Development Guide¶
If you're wondering how to share awesome features you have/want to have for Sylius with the Open Source community, here you will find a comprehensive guide to plugins development from the idea to sharing the plugin with the world. Remember that you can use all the customization techniques in Plugins.
The Cookbook¶
The Cookbook is a collection of specific solutions for specific needs.
The REST API Reference¶
The API guide covers the REST API of Sylius platform.
- Introduction to Sylius REST API
- Authorization
- Admin Users API
- Carts API
- Channels API
- Checkout API
- Countries API
- Currencies API
- Customers API
- Exchange Rates API
- Locales API
- Orders API
- Payment Methods API
- Payments API
- Product Attributes API
- Product Options API
- Product Reviews API
- Product Variants API
- Products API
- Promotion Coupons API
- Promotions API
- Provinces API
- Shipments API
- Shipping Categories API
- Shipping Methods API
- Tax Categories API
- Tax Rates API
- Taxons API
- Zones API
- Sorting and filtration
The BDD Guide¶
In the BDD Guide you will learn how to write clean and reusable features, contexts and pages using Behat.
The Contribution Guide¶
The Contribution Guide to Sylius.
The Support section for Sylius.
Components & Bundles¶
Documentation of all Sylius components and bundles useful when using them standalone.


text: Our downtown San Francisco client is one of the biggest social networking technology companies around. More than 85,000 sites rely on our clients technology to power their social networks, including the world's most recognizable brands such as the BBC, HBO, U2, Madonna, NBA, and NHL, and they are growing bigger by the day. They want a full-time Senior PHP Developer with a deep understanding of web technologies and experienced in building white-label web platforms. If they can dream it, you should be able to build it. It's a fast-paced, but rewarding opportunity that offers exposure to the some of the most innovative social networking platforms in the world today, perfect for a senior developer seeking new challenges, and looking to take your coding and problem solving to the next level (while having fun in the process). REQUIRED EXPERIENCE => Current and rock-solid knowledge of PHP 5.x, deep understanding of implementing secure, fast PHP applications for both page generation and APIs => Experience working with MySQL 5.x with special focus on SQL query performance tuning, replications and data partitioning etc => Solid working knowledge of the Linux operating system => Ability to deliver quality code quickly from full specs, and work in a dynamic, fast-moving environment => Excellent analytical problem solving skills => A portfolio or a list of URLs and a description on how you contributed => A wicked sense of humor DESIRED EXPERIENCE => Familiarity with Facebook/OpenSocial/iPhone apps => Past experience at a social networking product => Clustering solutions that use commodity hardware and smart software to keep sites up and running is a huge plus => Being able to say the alphabet backwards while standing on one foot To be considered, please submit your resume along with your salary requirements to beau-AT-open-source-staffing.com Thank you, Beau J. Gould Open Source Staffing www.open-source-staffing.com beau-AT-open-source-staffing.com